Comments on: Bush’s Greatest Failure http://www.poligazette.com/2008/05/23/bushs-greatest-failure/ News and Analysis from Different Moderate Perspectives Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:51:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Patrick Murphy http://www.poligazette.com/2008/05/23/bushs-greatest-failure/#comment-52280 Patrick Murphy Sun, 25 May 2008 03:56:30 +0000 http://poligazette.com/2008/05/23/bushs-greatest-failure/#comment-52280 Marc,  Was anything mentioned about the National Ignition Facility or the ITER at the conference you attended? Link to ITER would be:  www.iter.org Link to the National Ignition Facility would be: https://lasers.llnl.gov We should be talking about this! Marc,

 Was anything mentioned about the National Ignition Facility or the ITER at the conference you attended?

Link to ITER would be:  www.iter.org

Link to the National Ignition Facility would be: https://lasers.llnl.gov

We should be talking about this!

]]> By: kreiz http://www.poligazette.com/2008/05/23/bushs-greatest-failure/#comment-51880 kreiz Fri, 23 May 2008 16:22:48 +0000 http://poligazette.com/2008/05/23/bushs-greatest-failure/#comment-51880 I noticed that Friedman focuses entirely on GWB's failure to attack energy in areas of consumption reduction.  That's fine- I'm all for conservation.  But we can't "<em>save ourselves rich</em>" on this issue- at some point, new energy sources must be developed.  However, the blame for this cannot be laid at Bush's feet, as Dems have consistently resisted aggressive new energy developments- in ANWR, coastal drilling, shale, and nuclear.  GWB's positions on these issues is much more aggressive than the Dems, but GOP efforts in these areas have been thwarted at every turn.  The only acceptable new energy areas for Dems are solar and wind- which are fine, except that both of these preferred methodologies lack widespread commercial viability.    Marc, you correctly point out that the Dem congress has responsibility in this arena as well. I noticed that Friedman focuses entirely on GWB’s failure to attack energy in areas of consumption reduction.  That’s fine- I’m all for conservation.  But we can’t "save ourselves rich" on this issue- at some point, new energy sources must be developed.  However, the blame for this cannot be laid at Bush’s feet, as Dems have consistently resisted aggressive new energy developments- in ANWR, coastal drilling, shale, and nuclear.  GWB’s positions on these issues is much more aggressive than the Dems, but GOP efforts in these areas have been thwarted at every turn.  The only acceptable new energy areas for Dems are solar and wind- which are fine, except that both of these preferred methodologies lack widespread commercial viability.   

Marc, you correctly point out that the Dem congress has responsibility in this arena as well.

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